Joe Wood is an American singer/songwriter, best known as the singer for T.S.O.L.
After seeing The Germs at the Masque, Wood formed his own band,[1] Der Stab for which he played for about six to eight months, he would later play bass in The Hated, and later formed The Loners, a blues rockabilly band.
had broken up after vocalist Jack Grisham, keyboardist Greg Kuehn, and drummer Todd Barnes had quit the group amidst personal turmoil, guitarist Ron Emory had started playing with Wood in The Loners, he had asked Wood to start a new band with him and Mike Roche, joined by drummer Mitch Dean they chose to tour and record under the T.S.O.L.
[4][5] In 1992, Wood formed a side project called Orange Wedge with Mitch Dean, Dave Mello, Dean Chamberlain, and Mike Dewey.
[6] Wood called this the best band experience[7] In 1997, Wood formed a band that played traditional blues called Big Deluxe,[8] the group made an appearance in the 1998 film Pariah, in which Wood also plays a parent to one of the main characters.